OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?

[Michail Bletsas]

"Gabor Dolla" <agdolla at gmail.com> wrote on 12/30/2006 04:31:08 AM:


> 
> The meshing code is inextricable from the RTOS currently used, which is 
> commercial and proprietary. The RTOS is thus delivered as part of the
> meshing code for porting, and protecting the RTOS requires an NDA.
> 
> The whole stuff is written in C ? Is it documented or well commented
> ? Do you have any info about the size of it ? 
> 
Marvell tells us that the RTOS is about 16K in size. 
Given that we only have ~200K for code on the 8388, using something like 
eCOS is completely out of the question (~1MB)

M.
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